Healthcare IT has a long way to go before it delivers truly transformative benefits to providers and patients across the healthcare continuum. However, the incremental steps that already have been taken should not be discounted. While a complete digital transformation in healthcare is going to take some time, creativity, and even a few missteps before we get it right, current health IT capabilities are adding value to care delivery.Take EHRs, for example. For all of their well-publicized
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Providers: Do We Have To Define Population Health To Make It Useful?
Maybe the initial challenge of population health is deciding exactly what that phrase means.Well before it became a catchphrase in health IT, population health was the province of academics who devised predictably academic definitions like “… the aggregate health outcome of health-adjusted life expectancy (quantity and quality) of a group of individuals, in an economic framework that balances the relative marginal returns from the multiple determinants of health.”Originally created by and
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Why Applied Artificial Intelligence Is Here to Replace Healthcare Analytics
Editor's Note: Gurjeet Singh, PhD, CEO and co-founder of Ayasdi, an enterprise-grade artificial intelligence platform lets you create intelligent business applications and make fundamental discoveries with big data. The combination of electronic medical records, financial data, clinical data, and advanced analytics promised to revolutionize healthcare. It hasn’t happened. The common excuse is that healthcare wasn’t really prepared for the enormity and complexity of the data challenge and that,
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Why Now Is The Time For Healthcare To Tap The Sharing Economy
Editor's Note: David Goldsmith is the Chief Strategy Officer at WEGO Health, a a mission-driven company connecting healthcare with the experience, skills and insights of patient leaders. WEGO Health identifies patient influencers through a proprietary process that includes combining millions of social media data points with our members own interaction and self-reported information.When Robin Chase co-founded Zipcar in 2000, she saw an opportunity to turn a “world of scarcity” into a world of
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Access Governance, Role-Based Access Control and HIPAA Compliance
Editor’s Note: Dean Wiech is the Managing Director of Tools4ever, a global provider of access management and governance solutions. Dean has worked with healthcare organizations, educational institutions, municipalities for more than 20 years, helping them identify solutions that make their businesses and operations more secure, efficient and easier to manage. The ever growing impact of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is having a tremendous impact on healthcare
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Keeping Telemedicine HIPAA Compliant
Editor's Note: Brady Ranum is VP of Products and Strategy at Dizzion, a cloud delivered desktop and end user computing solutions provider. The healthcare industry is currently experiencing two major trends that are on a potentially dangerous collision course: the rise of telemedicine (and the corresponding increase in remote workers) and a spike in healthcare data breaches.As early as 2014, a telemedicine survey by Foley & Lardner found that an astonishing 90 percent of healthcare
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Why It’s Time for Hospitals to Become Immune to Ransomware
Editor's Note: Greg Maudsley is a cyber security expert at Menlo Security, a Silicon Valley-based cyber security company that protects organizations from cyber attack by eliminating the threat of malware.Hospitals and other healthcare organizations (HCOs) are increasingly singled out by cyber criminals for ransomware and other attacks. Not only are patients’ sensitive records being targeted, but also – as the FBI warns – their intellectual property or credit card information. The
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Best Practices for Creating a Successful Healthcare Corporate Compliance Program
Editor's Note: Lee F. Lasris is a Board Certified Health Law attorney and a shareholder at Greenspoon Marder’s Florida Health Law Center. Mr. Lasris has served as counsel to numerous health-care providers, including MSOs and independent practice associations, managed care organizations, value added provider networks physician practices, diagnostic imaging providers, hospitals, physical therapy providers, home health agencies, management companies and other health-care related entities. When is
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3 Reasons Why Cloud Computing Makes It Easier on Hospital Administrators
Editor's Note: Richard Sullivan is the chief operations officer for Medsphere Systems Corporation, the solution provider for the OpenVista electronic health record.Is there anyone left to passionately defend onsite data centers?Perhaps, but attendance at advocacy meetings is probably sparse. Soon, the onsite data center proponents will get lumped with eight-track tape aficionados and supporters of leeches as medical technology.While some hospitals still maintain local data centers, recent
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Revenue Integrity: Realizing the Promise of Hospital/Physician Integration
Editor's Note: Dan Ward is the VP of Strategy at ZirMed, a company empowering healthcare organizations to optimize revenue and population health with an end-to-end platform of cloud-based financial and clinical performance management solutions. HIT consultants see firsthand the growing pains of health systems as they increasingly purchase or partner with physician practices. While the aim is to increase efficiency, avoid duplication, lower costs and improve care, the reality is often very
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